New trustees, awards announced at Jackson Laboratory Annual Meeting
| Date: August 18, 2009 |
Jackson Laboratory Trustee Sam Little (top), grandson of Jackson founder C.C. Little, is the new president of the institution’s support group, The National Council. Two new Trustees and other appointments were also announced at the Laboratory’s 80th Annual Meeting and Discovery Day in Bar Harbor on August 14-15.
The Laboratory confirmed Stewart Hen and Kathleen Corbet to the Board of Trustees. Brian Wruble (bottom) was reelected as chairman of the Board, and long-serving Board members Bill Rudolf and Harry Sears, M.D., became Trustees Emeriti. Robert B. Darnell, M.D., Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor in Cancer Biology at Rockefeller University in New York and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, joined the Laboratory's Board of Scientific Overseers.
At the annual National Council Discovery Day on Saturday, the group met and shared a day of presentations and tours with employees and members of the local community. Harry Lodge, M.D., coauthor of the popular Younger Next Year series of books, gave a talk and led a panel discussion, followed by a presentation by Jackson Laboratory Professor David Harrison, Ph.D.
Trustee Weslie Janeway was this year's recipient of the Chairman's Award. This year's National Council Awards went to Maine Chapter Chair Alan Davis (Award for Distinguished Service), Florida Chapter Chair Renée Relf (Award for Philanthropy), and Professor David Serreze, Ph.D. (Award for Scientific Achievement). Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers donated the award sculptures, which were designed by David Moser, the company's principal furniture designer.
The Jackson Laboratory is a nonprofit biomedical research institution based in Bar Harbor, Maine. Its mission is to discover the genetic basis for preventing, treating and curing human diseases, and to enable research and education for the global biomedical community.
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